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Hello, my name is Phoenix Isolde Matthews, and YES I know I have a weird name, but my parents wanted something different and with meaning. You see, my parents are what you would call "hippies" but that's not why I'm named Phoenix. You see, a phoenix is a bird that spontaneously bursts into flame and then is reborn from its own ashes, when I was born, I was 3 months early and was legally dead for 5minutes, but then the doctors got my heart beating and here we are. Now my parents, insist I call them Erik and Kya when I'm talking to 'em, but other than that they're pretty normal (to me anyway). Other than my parents, I don't have any family. My grandparents disowned my parents-on both sides-when they told my grandparents that they were moving to a commune. And I really shouldn't say that I don't have any family, but rather I don't have any biological family, but I do have the rest of my commune family.
There's Sara and Paul, Flo and Nick, Bob and Carolyn, Sky and Kyle, not to mention the 10 of us kids. All told, there is 20 of us living on 20 acres in upstate New York and we are one big hippie family. Now, I know what you're thinking, a bunch of hippie freaks with their freaky kids but there's an extra element of freaky on this hippie commune. 8 out of 10 kids on the commune are mutants, and that's just for now, there are two toddlers who can barely walk so, we're waiting on them to round us out. Our parents are totally cool with us being mutants so it's not a bad life.
Now you'd think that with 8 outta 10 of us having an extra ability that it would get a little tense, but not really. We have a pretty good understanding with each other, we share all chores and stuff equally. But when it comes to our abilities and seeing as how I'm the oldest at 18, they all kind of look to me as an example of how to act. To give you a slight intro to my "siblings" and best friends, we have; Lotus, 17; Calla, 16; Calliope and Athena, 15; Sunny and Autumn, 14; and Summer, 13. Their abilities can only be described as elemental.
Winter controls Light, Calla controls Darkness, Calliope controls water, Athena controls fire, Lotus controls metal and ice, Autumn controls earth, Summer controls air and me? I control all of the above, I can also control the weather (sometimes) and I've been told I have a voice that could bring a stampeding herd of elephants and rhinos to a complete standstill. That one comes in handy when everybody is trying to talk at once. Now I know what you're probably thinking, 'WHOA, all that power…awesome!' But, it's not all that it's cracked up to be, I have a helluva lotta power but I don't have a friggin' clue on how to control it all.
That lack of control is what brought me to where I am now, and where is that exactly? Why, Xavier's School for gifted Youngsters of course. And what I am about to tell you may seem impossible, but life is made up of impossible moments and all that is to follow is 100% truth!